Jules Wernersbach

@juliewbach.bsky.social

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Founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer indie bookstore in Bushwick. Debut novel WORK TO DO coming from University of Iowa Press 2026.

A flamenco dancer lifts her arm in the air as her skirt swirls around her ankles. She’s dancing on a piece of plywood in the middle of a small bookstore. Behind her, a man is seated and playing guitar, while another man is standing at a microphone, singing and and clapping. A bookshelf is behind them. Around the serves of the frame, there is the audience.
A cat with a gray and white face on all fours on a brown wood kitchen floor sniffing a sticker that says, Whose Store? Our Store! Guadalupe Street Coop, a reference to the grocery store in the book.
A promotional postcard for the novel Work To Do is held up next a calico street cat looking into the camera with trust and love. The cat is sitting on a kitchen table in daylight.
The cover of the novel Work To Do by Jules Wernersbach. A pink apron on a green background with the title in capital letters and a yellow font.
Graphic with the cover of WORK TO DO, advertising that you can pre-order signed copies from Hive Mind Books.
The cover of Work To Do: A Novel by Jules Wernersbach. A pink apron lays against a green background, tossed off by an employee off duty, perhaps. A pink cabbage and brown grocery bags tumble towards it from all directions. The title, WORK TO DO, is in a bright yellow font.
A person wearing glasses and smiling down at a table full of books by queer and trans writers. The person is behind the table, which includes a display with many books face out.
An illustration from Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak. It’s the moment when the baby brother is stolen by goblins. The sister’s back is turned to the cradle, she’s playing a French horn out the window. The goblins snatch the baby brother out the window and leave behind a doll decoy that looks like the corpse of an infant. It’s pretty scary!
A galley copy of the So Gay For You by Leisha Haley and Kate Moennig, stars of The L Word.
McKenzie Wark and Vera Blossom talking to a seated audience in a bookstore.
Flags at a rally protesting genocide in Palestine, including Palestinian, trans, and South African flags.
Rally for Palestinian freedom at Columbus Circle. Large crowd waving signs and Palestinian flags.
Very large group of people marching in Brooklyn calling for a free Palestine and an end to violence.
A stone staircase down to a creek at night, where a tall person stands wearing a baseball cap and looking at the water, wishing she could get in it, but knowing there are cameras everywhere, and she doesn’t have a change of clothes.
A sleeping orange tabby cat on an apartment floor. His head is on a small throw pillow. He is totally chilled out.
Laptops open on laps in a living room.
Cat next to a person with glasses who is attempting to write. The cat has its paw on the writer’s hand.
Person standing in front of the Atlantic Ocean, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, and smiling.
A person in a baseball cap drilling slat wall into the end of a bookshelf in a bookstore
Selfie of a person holding a piece of slat wall in front of a shelf of children’s books.
Close up of a cat in a soft play tube with a toy ball in front of her.